CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80598

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the NTFS3 filesystem's decompress_lznt() function does not validate array index bounds before accessing the decompression table. A corrupted NTFS3 image with invalid compressed data can trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could be exploited to perform an out-of-bounds read, potentially leading to information disclosure or system crash.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update that fixes CVE-2026-80598.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs3: fix out-of-bounds read in decompress_lznt decompress_lznt() does not validate array index bounds before accessing the decompression table. A corrupted NTFS3 image with invalid compressed data can trigger an out-of-bounds read. Add index bounds checking to prevent the OOB access.

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